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A REVOLUTION IN EGG PRODUCTION 



tion and judgment, and note the effect on your flock. "Ask 

 the birds, their judgment is good." 



A house which is deep from the roost to the front will 

 allow for a greater amount of ventilation, with less danger, 

 than a narrow house. 



A very deep house, with a roof of one pitch, will make 

 it necessary to have the front of the house high to admit the 



Hen House — Remodeled 1915 



sunshine into the back of the house, for sanitation and com- 

 fort. When we get a house built too high it will prove cold 

 in winter, and will also be a waste of building material Avhich 

 is used up in enclosing a great amount of dead space which 

 is never used. 



We get the same effect of sunshine, without the defects 

 just mentioned, by a break in the pitch of the roof, and making 

 it double pitch with a monitor top. 



If we leave the greater span at the back, or roosting side, 

 of the house, we can place windows in the drop or monitor 



